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spit venom

spit venom verb: to show great anger or contempt, usually in speech.

Verb

spit venom (third-person singular simple present spits venom, present participle spitting venom, simple past and past participle spat venom or spit venom)

  1. To show great anger or contempt, usually in speech.
    • Her lips pursed as if to spit venom at the word; pursed they remained. All she did was to take her glove and rub hard at a spot on the window-pane.1982 April, Virginia Woolf, An Unwritten Novel, in A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, Granada Publishing, page 16
    • For some reason it hurt that he didn’t trust her. She’d had people spit venom at her, but this bothered her more because it was so unwarranted. As far as she knew, she’d never met him before yesterday, had never met anyone who knew him well. So why?2006, Natasha Oakley, chapter 3, in Millionaire Dad: Wife Needed, Mills & Boon, page 72

Synonyms of spit venom

Forms of spit venom

third-person singular presentspits venom
present participlespitting venom
past participlespat venom
pastspat venom
past participlespit venom
pastspit venom

Questions about spit venom

What does spit venom mean?
Spit venom means to show great anger or contempt, usually in speech.
What part of speech is spit venom?
Spit venom is a verb.
What is the past tense of spit venom?
The past tense of spit venom is spat venom.

Words near spit venom in the dictionary

  1. spit take
  2. spit takes
  3. spit the dummy
  4. spit up
  5. spit valve
  6. spit venom
  7. spit wad
  8. spit wads
  9. spit-and-polish
  10. spit-and-sawdust
  11. spit-ball

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